TAKE A BREAK AT THE JUNKYARD - DEPONIA: FREE PUBLIC DEMO NOW
AVAILABLE

Brighton, June 25
th, 2012 – Thinking about your next
holiday destination? How about a trip to the junkyard? A planet
full of trash? That’s right – this is where Daedalic
Entertainment’s new PC adventure gaming masterpiece will be
taking you – to the wonderful trash planet of Deponia.

Now, for everybody who still doesn’t fancy an unusual
location, here’s your chance to take a short trip and get a
first glimpse of what’s awaiting you: Today, Daedalic and
publisher Lace Mamba Global release a free public demo version of
Deponia, that allows you to test-dive into the hilarious adventure:
The approximately 700 MB sized demo features scenes of the first
chapter of the game and offers between 30 and 45 minutes of
gameplay time. Take a look and see how much anti-hero Rufus needs
your help, before the full game hits the retail shelves throughout
the UK and Ireland this Friday, June 29
th, 2012.

Deponia is the next big adventure game release by Daedalic
Entertainment, creators of award-winning genre highlights like A
New Beginning and The Whispered World, brought to life with
detailed hand-painted backgrounds in widescreen format and
top-quality cartoon animation.

The game is a fast-paced comedy of errors and one of the most
unusual love stories in gaming history. The twist-filled story
takes its off-beat characters all over trash planet Deponia, a
unique game world in the style of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett
and Matt Groening. From Kuvaq, an improvised village built inside a
giant trash heap, to the swimming black market and the dark corners
of the elevated planetary railways.

Rufus, one of the playable main characters, is not a pleasant
guy. Ill-tempered and entirely too convinced of his own
greatness, he lives at the edge of a small settlement
somewhere in the most remote sector of the garbage-covered
planet Deponia. He dreams of a better life in the floating
cities of wealth and beauty high above the planet surface.
When the angelic Goal falls from these privileged spheres down
into a neighbouring trash heap, Rufus sees his chance. He
decides to bring the unconscious beauty back to her home. Only
a vague hope of making it off Deponia at first, he soon
formulates an unscrupulous plan, as he learns that he is
a dead ringer for Goal’s upper-class husband. The
planned handover is only the beginning of a wild chase across
Deponia full of twists, turns and mystifying
mix-ups…

Deponia received the highest praise from the press after its
release in Germany. Now, the first reviews for the English version
are coming in – and the praise continues: The online magazine
GamingLives, for example, rated the game 9 out of 10, stating:
“Daedalic have thumped it into the heart of their own genre,
delivering a well-rounded, blissful kick of addictive lushness that
now begs for a sequel. Offering a quirky, inventive setting,
painted in rich detail in the developer’s typically beautiful
hand-drawn cartoony art style, Deponia is a joy to look at as much
as play.”

Deponia is scheduled to arrive on retail shelves throughout the
UK and Ireland on June 29
th, 2012. The retail edition (recommended retail price:
£29.99) includes the full game as well as a poster and the
original soundtrack on CD.

About Lace Mamba Global

Lace Mamba Global Ltd. (LMG), one of the UK's leading
independent computer and video game publishers, is a partnership
between Mamba Games and the UK's leading DVD distribution company,
Lace Group.

With a solid distribution network throughout the world and
specializing in releases in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries,
Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and various countries in the Gulf
region, Lace Mamba Global is publishing games of all genres. Recent
releases include the FPS Red Orchestra 2 – Heroes of
Stalingrad, RTS games of the critically acclaimed Men of War
series, Men of War: Assault Squad and Men of War: Vietnam, or the
independently developed platforming smash hit Super Meat Boy. Lace
Mamba Global is one of the leading publishers of adventure games
with already released or upcoming genre highlights such as Tales of
Monkey Island™, Gray Matter, The Book of Unwritten Tales,
Black Mirror 2 and 3 and A New Beginning. Lace Mamba Global
furthermore specializes in publishing unique, extensive special and
collector’s editions to support retail releases.

Lace Mamba Global is the ideal partner for independent
developers that want their product delivered to a worldwide
audience both in retail and digital form.

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